• RMCP interface (using ipmitool)
• IPMB interface (The Total Phase Aardvark)

You need an either the ipmitool for accessing RCMP interface or a Total Phase Aardvark for communication over the IPMB interface.

The recommended installation method is using pip:

pip install python-ipmi

Download the source distribution package for the library. Extract the the package to a temporary location and install:

python setup.py install

Below is an example that shows how to setup the interface and the connection using the ipmitool as backend with both network and serial interfaces.

Example with lan interface:

import pyipmi
import pyipmi.interfaces

# Supported interface_types for ipmitool are: 'lan' , 'lanplus', and 'serial-terminal'
interface = pyipmi.interfaces.create_interface('ipmitool', interface_type='lan')

connection = pyipmi.create_connection(interface)

connection.target = pyipmi.Target(0xb2)
connection.target.set_routing([(0x20,0)])

connection.session.set_session_type_rmcp('10.0.0.1', port=623)
connection.session.set_auth_type_user('admin', 'admin')
connection.session.establish()

connection.get_device_id()

ipmitool command:

ipmitool -I lan -H 10.0.0.1 -p 623 -b 0 -t 0xb2 -U "admin" -P "admin" -l 0 raw 0x06 0x01

Example with serial interface:

import pyipmi
import pyipmi.interfaces

interface = pyipmi.interfaces.create_interface('ipmitool', interface_type='serial-terminal')

connection = pyipmi.create_connection(interface)

connection.target = pyipmi.Target(0xb2)

# set_session_type_serial(port, baudrate)
connection.session.set_session_type_serial('/dev/tty2', 115200)
connection.session.establish()

connection.get_device_id()

ipmitool command:

ipmitool -I serial-terminal -D /dev/tty2:115200 -t 0xb2 -l 0 raw 0x06 0x01

Python 2.7 is currently supported. Python 3.x support is in beta

Contributions are always welcome. You may send patches directly (eg. git send-email), do a github pull request or just file an issue.

• respect the coding style (eg. PEP8),
• provide well-formed commit message (see this blog post.)
• add a Signed-off-by line (eg. git commit -s)

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

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